Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Herodotus, John Searle and Katherine Hawley
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
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Reduction can be of things, properties, ideas or causes [Searle]
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Reduction is either by elimination, or by explanation [Searle]
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Eliminative reduction needs a gap between appearance and reality, as in sunsets [Searle]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / b. Types of supervenience
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Users of 'supervenience' blur its causal and constitutive meanings [Searle]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / c. Significance of supervenience
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Solidity in a piston is integral to its structure, not supervenient [Maslin on Searle]
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Is supervenience just causality? [Searle, by Maslin]
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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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A homogeneous rotating disc should be undetectable according to Humean supervenience [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
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Reality is entirely particles in force fields [Searle]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality
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Non-linguistic things cannot be indeterminate, because they don't have truth-values at all [Hawley]
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Maybe for the world to be vague, it must be vague in its foundations? [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance
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Epistemic vagueness seems right in the case of persons [Hawley]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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Supervaluation refers to one vaguely specified thing, through satisfaction by everything in some range [Hawley]
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Supervaluationism takes what the truth-value would have been if indecision was resolved [Hawley]
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